Obscure Brewers - Where are they now?

[recte44]

Randy Ready will take the helm of the Triple-A Portland Beavers. Ready served as manager for Double-A San Antonio in 2007, leading the Missions to a 73-66 record and the Texas League Championship. Prior to joining the Missions he served as manager of the Padres Single-A Midwest League affiliate in Fort Wayne from 2004-2006, leading the Wizards to a 208-209 record (.499), including a playoff berth in 2006.

 

Jose Flores makes his managerial debut for the Rookie League Peoria Padres in 2008, after serving as the Short-A Eugene Emeralds hitting coach in 2007. A former infielder, Flores spent the 2006 season at the Triple-A level in the Cleveland Indians and San Francisco Giants organizations. Flores will be joined by first-time coach Bronswell Patrick. Originally selected by Oakland in the 23rd round of the 1988 June draft, the right-hander pitched in parts of two Major League seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers (1998) and Giants (1999). Bob Skube moves from Single-A Fort Wayne to take over as hitting coach in his second season in the Padres system, while Ernesto Vega, Jr. returns for his second season as athletic trainer.

[Blindcheck]

Where is Mike Birkbeck

[TheRealMattKain]

Fitting that my first post would be Mike Birkbeck related...

Mike is the current Associate Head Coach of baseball at Kent State:

http://www.kentstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=47670&SPID=4468&DB_OEM_ID=11400&ATCLID=605617

MattKain

[Big Reed]

any news on that former brewers pitcher Julio Machado who was arrested for shooting somebody in his home country in Central america? Was he found innocent? Did he ever go to tiral? did he buy his way out? IS he still in jail?

[TheRealMattKain]

On Julio Machado:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507E7DA1E31F935A2575BC0A960958260

Looks like he was found guilty and convicted.

MattKain

[owbc]

Board Member 1: I've never heard of half of these guys and the ones I do know are way past their prime.

Charlie Donovan: Most of these guys never had a prime.

Board Member 2: This guy here is dead.

Rachel Phelps: Cross him off then.

[MJLiverock]

What about the infamous Billy Jo Robidoux? I remember hearing about how he mashed in the minors and I couldn't wait for him to reach the bigs. I remember looking up his stats in the Sporting News as a kid and getting his future star cards from Donruss.

 

I always like Daryl Hamilton and I can't quite place what he has been up to. Some part of my brain thinks he was on TV as an announcer of some sorts in the past few years but I can't remember.

[djoctagone]

What about Gus the dog? Did I hear correctly that he died recently?

[1992casey]

More recently, I believe Machado had been sprung and had played in a Venezuelan league.

[Blindcheck]

Fitting that my first post would be Mike Birkbeck related...

 

Mike is the current Associate Head Coach of baseball at Kent State:

http://www.kentstatesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=47670&SPID=4468&DB_OEM_ID=11400&ATCLID=605617

 

MattKain

Why is fitting that a Mike Birkbeck post be your first?

 

I also liked Mark Knudson....an opening day pitcher for the Brewers one season.

 

 

[alwz4gbp]

Whoever started this thread, nice one. I'm not the most internet savvy person in the world so I wouldn't know how to find out most of this stuff. Its kind of interesting reading "where are they now" pieces.

Glenn Braggs is my new hero!!!!! hahaha

Hamilton was one of my favorites as well. I talked to him for quite a while at spring training in 92. Very nice guy. You are correct about the TV part, he works for MLBTV.

I was surprised to read about Listasch. Pretty impressive for someone who is still relatively young.

Any more info you guys can post would be cool.

[2hoophead]

Joey Meyer - remember (all of) him? Didn't he swallow Hawaii ??

[brewtank34]

Ed Sprague is now the Owner of the Stockton Ports (California league baseball club). His wife owns a differnt club in the same league called the Lodi Crushers.

 

Before:

 

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After:

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTb_g1OaVHB2gAXzGjzbkF/SIG=1218g23hd/EXP=1202096821/**http%3A//www.fairytale-ending.com/edsprague.jpg

[Time for a Miller]

Does anybody know where Matt Kinney is now? I still need to get him to autograph a copy of Stephen King's "Nightmares and Dreamscapes." A 12 year old Mr. Kinney is actually a featured character in one of the stories in that book. If I recall correctly King writes about Kinney looking at a breast exam ad in a magazine with his little league teamates.

[Mass Haas]

Does anybody know where Matt Kinney is now?

Matt Kinney agreed to a one-year deal this past December to play with the Seibu Lions of Japan.

[EsoxLazer]

2HoopHead beat me to it. I always wondered what happened to Joey Meyer. My brother was convinced(and probably still is) that he was going to be a force to be reckoned with and a cornerstone for the Brewers to build around. He still has a few of these Topps Future Star cards:

 

http://www.autograph-cards.com/sp1_d03744_Joey_Meyer.asp

 

Great thread!!!

[JimH5]

When I lived in Florida, I noticed an announcement that Sid Roberson had joined a financial planning firm in Ponte Vedra Beach. That was about 5 years ago. It was the same diminutive lefty from the 1995 team, and a teammate of Iggy.

[MNBrew]

Gus Polidor died quite a long time ago. Nothing recent about it. I couldn't remember when so I looked him up. According to baseball-reference.com, Gus died on April 28, 1995.

 

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